Creating notifiers

When you request that a push notification be sent to your app on devices, an API BaaS notifier carries the request to the notification service (Google GCM or Apple APNs).

A notifier is represented by an entity in your API BaaS application (see Default Data Entity Types for reference information). It carries the credentials that authorize your request. Once a notification service has verified that your notifier contains valid credentials, it will forward your push notification to your app on devices.

You can create a notifier in two ways: using the admin portal and programmatically.

Click Choose File to select the .p12 certificate you generated and saved to your desktop earlier in this tutorial.

Environment

Select the environment appropriate to your app. You may select development or production. Note that for the environment you select, you should have a separate .p12 certificate -- different certificates for development and production.

Certificate Password

Enter a certificate password if one was specified when you created your .p12 certificate.